Sentences with phrase «opiate of the people»

The Marxist philosopher says environmentalism is a new opiate of the people, Bill Gates has privatised part of our intellect, and reality is incomplete

-- The Times «You can see why, for a legion of female readers, Maeve Binchy is a one - woman opiate of the people.»

Is touchy - feely environmentalism a new opiate of the people?

It was in a Christian culture that Karl Marx called religion the opiate of the people.

«Religion is the opiate of the people» - Karl Marx.

She once said it is not religion that is the opiate of the people, but revolution.

All the world's dictators detested the Christian religion and some called it the opiate of the people.

Every dictator which includes Stalin, Hitler, Lenin, etc.... held no particular religious belief, but instead looked upon religion as the «opiate of the people».

Who was it that said» religion is the opiate of the people»??? I do not recall, was it Marx or Lennin?

In an interesting chapter on the Marxian theme of religion as the «opiate of the people», Jose Miguez Bonino welcomes the criticism «as a valid warning against the self - deception and confusion which so easily creep into a political programme of any sort when it is clothed in religious language».

Religion which has not lost its utopianism is the opposite of the opiate of the people.

In Beijing a representative of the Division of World Religions of the Chinese National Academy of the Social Sciences admitted that the standard Marxist definition of religion as the «opiate of the people» is no longer the only view informing the academy's research.

When Lenin said that religion is the opiate of the people, I know exactly and intimately what he means.

When Karl Marx spoke scornfully of religion as the opiate of the people, no doubt he had in mind the practices of prayer, almsgiving, and fasting; these, he said, diverted attention from matters of social justice and gave people a good conscience when their conscience ought to be troubled.

Same for Marx's accusation that religion is the «opiate of the people.»

The presentation of a religious world of equilibrium to those who crave equilibrium is what Marx referred to by his famous characterization of religion as «the opiate of the people.»

But on the other hand, to ignore the sociopolitical factors in order to accent religion and culture only serves to make the latter the opiate of the people.

Karl Marx proposed — with some justification, my data would suggest — that religion is the opiate of the people.

It turns out Karl Marx was wrong: religion is not the opiate of the people; it's the Prozac of the people.

In another sense, it is a vague longing for a religious «fix» — what Marx liked to call «the opiate of the people.»

But that goes against the plain sense of the biblical story, and it confirms the Marxist charge that religion is the opiate of the people.